Portrait

37 years old, LEVALLOIS - FRANCE

Journalist or sailor? Both at the same time! Originally from Segré near Angers, Fabrice Amedeo is in civilian street holder of a press card and writes for the Figaro newspaper. He became Interested in the sea because of cruises on his family’s small 22-foot boat, he has since led a double life. Working for the Paris-based newspaper and spending his holidays and his free time out on the water.

After competing in IRC races, such as the Spi Ouest France and the Fastnet, he switched directions somewhat in 2008 moving to the very demanding Figaro school, thanks to a six-month break to gain experience of the Solitaire and the Transat AG2R. But Fabrice Amedeo is also an author. He has so far written six books, half of which are about ocean racing. A graduate in Philosophy and Politics, he found the means to compete in a Class40, boats that are halfway between the Figaro and the big 60-foot IMOCAs we see in the Vendée Globe. He was able to learn a lot alongside professionals like Armel Tripon, with whom he achieved some success with podium places in this circuit.

Monocoque IMOCA

IMOCA60 NEWREST-MATMUT

The concept was drawn up by Loïck Peyron for the 2008-2009 Vendée Globe. The boat was designed by Farr and built in New Zealand and has always had top class names at her helm. Under the name, Synerciel, she was Jean Le Cam’s boat in the last Vendée Globe (5th). She finished the last Barcelona World Race on the podium (3rd place). A good boat for Fabrice, as the boat is considered to be reliable and remains fast. Work is currently being carried out on her.

Boat

Technical Plan

Sponsor

Newrest - Matmut

Newrest
With origins in Group Catair in 1996, and founded by its Co-CEO’s Olivier Sadran and Jonathan Stent-Torriani, Newrest is the only major catering company active in all catering and related hospitality segments including airline catering, buy-on-board, duty-free on board, rail catering, airport and motorway retail concession, contract catering, remote site and support services. With 2014 revenues under management of 1,4 Billion Euros and more than 28,000 employees world-wide in 49 countries, Newrest is also the second largest ‘independent’ airline caterer world-wide.

Matmut
With close to 3 million members and almost 6.6 million insurance contracts managed (at 31 December 2014), the Matmut Group has become a major actor on the French insurance market. It is in a position to provide all-comers – private individuals, professionals, enterprises and associations – with a full range of insurance products covering people and property (cars, motorbikes, boats, housing, responsibilities, family protection, healthcare, legal protection and assistance) along with financial and savings services (including automobile and consumer credit, loan insurance, savings books and life insurance). The Group recorded a turnover of 1.9 billion euros in 2014 and has over 5,800 employees.